New Little King’s Story Enhanced for PS Vita, Out on PSN Tuesday

Little King’s Story is back and better than ever – now on PlayStation Vita. Featuring a brand new storyline and online functionality, New Little King’s Story offers players a royal role playing game with enhanced PS Vita system graphics and features.

New Little King’s Story follows players as they assume the role of King Corobo, tasked with reclaiming his kingdom from the Devil King, “The Nightmare.” Players will experience an incredible journey as they visit seven different kingdoms and battle against evil dark lords that have captured the royal princesses. As King, gamers will need to lead their Royal Guard in every grand battle, and plan attacks wisely as they grow their populations and broaden their territories.

The new PS Vita version will allow players to engage more deeply with their fellow characters, compared to the highly popular Wii version of the game. All characters have experience points, and fighting as a group will help them grow. By changing accessories freely, a player can dress up their troops as they like. It is also possible to banish characters whom the players dislike from their country, then welcome a new character into the group.

Players can embark on adventures with princesses, who can support the player with their magical abilities. By using a particular princess’ skill, players can catch monsters and turn them into companions. These new allies can be brought along and fight in battles — they’ll grow too.

We decided to put the game on PS Vita for many reasons. Using the touch-panel improves the game dramatically. The Wii version used only the buttons for controls, and could be difficult to play. By using PS Vita’s touch-panel, the player can scout more than a dozen citizens all at once. The high resolution graphics let the player see many characters at once, as well.

Last but not least, PSN gives players easy access to new avatars and other items. We wanted players to have fun customizing their characters, so giving players the option to purchase additional items was an obvious choice.

Ah, no wonder Amazon’s item page for this game is blank. It’s digital only?

I guess that makes sense for xseed print runs and for Vita sales. Sometimes it seems redundant to have really low-MB games on physical media (ie: Touch My Katamari, or Sumioni’s JPN release), but I’m even getting down to 8000 MB left on my 32GB card and I try to buy anything I can on physical media.

I was annoyed when Escape Plan’s file size got really huge with DLC, especially when I only had an 8GB card. Oh well. I ain’t mad atcha, either way. Buying this, 100% for sure. Thanks for localizing!

P.S. someone tell Sony to drastically drop prices on memory cards and bring out a 64GB one at $50 for me.

Sony man… Step your game up.
I’m gonna pick up LBP Vita when i get the money but, my god, you need some AAA games that show off what the system can do, other than WipEout, Uncharted, and Gravity Rush.
This could be a REALLY good game, but, like i said, i have GameLoft games that cost me 99 cents on my tablet that look better than this and give me a large amount of hours worth of gameplay.

Hey Sony…after spending $40 on dumpster fodder such as army corps of hell or Lego batman 2? I believe as a consumer I have the right to trade in such crap games and purchase less crappy games, used if possible. Why screw over you’re customers by having them buy online passes after already bending them over once and shoveling crappy vita titles up their (I won’t say such area in which you shovel them). This is unfair to Sony gamers and stores such as GS that only help the growth of you’re products and this horrible injustice should be aborted. At least make online passes free for plus members (wink wink) CUT THE CRAP SONY!!

@30 lol no offense, but i’m getting sick of the ‘it was full price in japan’ excuse for all these overpriced games coming here.
Games like Legasista or WotS4 being full price there doesn’t justify its low budget quality being charged so high here. In fact, knowing it was full price just means Japanese gamers were ripped off to begin with.

I REALLY want this game, but I have to wait for the reviews. The user review for the JPN version mentioned that the game experiences several slowdowns.
Japanese gamers were given a physical release of the game but they also pay twice as much as we do. Insane.

Now this is exactly the treatment that Final Fantasy III should have been given. You would think that Final Fantasy, being the popular series that it is, would get more than a simple release for a dead system, and it isn’t even Vita compatible. With that being said, could someone please tell me why this virtual unknown game gets an official Vita release with new graphics, but the tried and true Final Fantasy gets nothing? I fail to see the logic behind these decisions.

Has anyone at Konami thought about making a sequel to Azure Dreams? One randomly generated tower and one upgradable town would translate into relatively low development costs. The monster familiar fusion system was well thought out, the dating sim was entertaining, and adding new buildings(with minigames) to the town was alot of fun.

I would had love this if it was coming retail and not digital only, now I need to consider what to delete on my system, or wait for a price drop on the memory card. Only time will tell, and only digital sales will help you~

@40 Looks like its digital only. Amazon only shows the old Wii version and they tend to have pages months in advance for releases. I would of bought this too, but since I can not buy NA digital downloads for my vita, there is another sale lost for konami due to PSN only releases.

The game might look like it’s not good but the WII version was rather highly rated by people who played it. So much so that when I was searching a few Top 10 and 25 lists when trying to find a game to play on the WII it was mentioned a few times and I got around to playing it. With the improvements they are making it will be worth the 30-40 dollars.

Stop complaining about the price and support the companies who are making games that challenge the normal genres. Graphics aren’t everything. If anything the graphics support the type of game it is.